Ministry of Justice

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

Marsha De Cordova: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of tribunal appeals in relation to claims for personal independence payments by people with epilepsy were successful in (a) London, (b) the South East, (c) the South West, (d) the East Midlands, (e) the West Midlands, (f) the North East and (g) the North West in the last 12 months.

Lucy Frazer: HM Courts & Tribunals Service does not categorise appeals by illness, or disability, of the appellant. This information is therefore not held centrally.

Fraud: Disclosure of Information

Catherine West: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria are for the imposition of restrictions on media reporting applied to cases of economic crime.

Lucy Frazer: In accordance with the principle of open justice, the general rule is that all court proceedings must be held in open court to which the public and the media have access. There are, however, circumstances in which there may be restrictions on what can be reported. The statutory criteria for reporting restrictions in all criminal cases, including economic crime, can be automatic or discretionary.Automatic restrictions are only applied in limited situations or to specific points in the journey of a case, for example in pre-trial hearings to prevent reporting of decisions on admissibility of evidence. If discretionary restrictions are applied, the court must first be satisfied that failure to apply these restrictions would render the administration of justice impractical. In either case, the media should be given an opportunity to make representations on the imposition of any reporting restriction and the courts have the power to lift or vary the restrictions if requested.